Dr Liz Moores

General

In 1995 I was awarded a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Sheffield and was then fortunate enough to gain funding to study for a PhD in dyslexia with Prof. Rod Nicolson and Prof. Angela Fawcett. I worked hard and played hard in Sheffield for another four years - the final year of which I was employed as a temporary lecturer in statistics and research methods. It was time for a change! When my year was up and my PhD was under my belt I jetted off to the University of Verona for a year to do a post-doc in visual selective attention in humans with Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi. Many pizzas and two and a half years later (I liked it there!) I returned to the UK and have been here at Aston University since.

Research interests

My main research interest are in dyslexia and visual selective attention. Together with my PhD student, Rizan Cassim, we have been investigating visual attention modulation in adults dyslexia and in particular the roles of cueing, crowding and increasing numbers of distractors. I am also interested in what guides visual attention and in particular the role of long term and working memory in the guidance of visual attention.

Teaching Activity

I currently teach or supervise on:

PY2238 Psychological Research Methods

PY3314 Final year project

PY4030 Advanced Statistics

PY1124 Research methods and statistics

Qualifications

Postgraduate Professional Certificate in Learning and Teaching, Aston University, 2005

PhD in Psychology, University of Sheffield, 1999

European Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Science, International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, 1998